50 highest-paid high school coaches in San Antonio

The San Antonio Express-News sifted through salary records for 615 head coaches in the area, and found that head coaches earned more than $39 million during the 2013-2014 school year. Football coaches alone make up more than 50 percent of the top 50 highest-paid coaches, and pull in just under $3.7 million per year, according to records obtained from local school districts.

Click through the slideshow to see the 50 highest-paid high school coaches in San Antonio.

The San Antonio Express-News sifted through salary records for 615 head coaches in the area, and found that head coaches earned more than $39 million during the 2013-2014 school year. Football coaches alone ... more

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The San Antonio Express-News sifted through salary records for 615 head coaches in the area, and found that head coaches earned more than $39 million during the 2013-2014 school year. Football coaches alone make up more than 50 percent of the top 50 highest-paid coaches, and pull in just under $3.7 million per year, according to records obtained from local school districts.

Click through the slideshow to see the 50 highest-paid high school coaches in San Antonio.

The San Antonio Express-News sifted through salary records for 615 head coaches in the area, and found that head coaches earned more than $39 million during the 2013-2014 school year. Football coaches alone ... more

Photo: MARVIN PFEIFFER, File

50 highest-paid high school coaches in San Antonio

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SAN ANTONIO — High school football coaches in the San Antonio area dominate coaches of other sports when it comes to compensation, according to records obtained from 19 area school districts by the San Antonio Express-News.

Although the highest-paid high school coach in the San Antonio area leads a girls basketball team, football coaches make up more than half of the 50 highest-paid coaches in the area, according to the records.

Click through the slideshow to see the 50 highest-paid coaches in the San Antonio area for the 2013-2014 school year or see the full database here.

A total of 615 head coaches across all sports, including football, basketball, baseball, softball, golf, volleyball, tennis, track, wrestling, diving, cross country, water polo, powerlifting, soccer and swimming, earned more than $39 million during that time, the records show.

The 45 football coaches included in that data pulled in just under $3.7 million per year collectively during the 2013-2014 school year, according to the records.

Other sports to rank with the 50 highest-paid individuals – mainly from North East, Northside and Judson school districts – are basketball, baseball, golf, swimming and track.

The highest-paid coach in the area is Gene Phillips, the head girls basketball coach for Alamo Heights High School. Phillips earns $116,714 a year, according to the records.

The exceptions are campus athletic coordinators or athletic directors, because "these positions are considered administrative positions" and do not teach in traditional classrooms, Gonzalez said.

He added that, with a few exceptions across the state, head football coaches mainly act as campus athletic coordinators.

For example, the secord highest-paid head coach in San Antonio is Churchill High School’s football coach, Glenn Hill, earning $108,496 a year. While his base salary is $107,664 for his athletic coordinator duties, he receives a retention supplementst worth $832, according to district records.